25.06.2012, 06:58
Hi Madcat: Catalina is a "Beauty"... had a model ( Revell ) with wing painted deep-yellow. ... very lond carreer in real life and range of 24hrs in the air, impressive !
...some were nickname "blackcat's" as I recall. HA! U like cats ! I see... More like CANSO in canada. ( canadair/consolidated/convair ).
Hi TED ! How are U these days ! Had CFS-3 just slightly before IL2FB, and used the two side by side for a long while...
- one thing: I became very good at reallistic shooting in CFS-3, but never in IL-2 . Could lob my tracers wright where the ennemy plane would be...
My guess is the AI was somewhat predictable !
- I hated difficulty of landing a plane in CFS-3, ( to seek/then actually see a runway, long after the "game-over message !" ); plus NO AI plane RTB at all.
- there was an ARCADE feeling due to ennemy planes reappearing endlessly till the goal of the game was hit on the button; no in auto-pilot mode combat either !
- no records playbacks that I recall...
- adding new planes in CFS-3, like in FSX, takes huge ammount of memory per plane ! ( This, CFS-3, at a time where PC memories was much lower ! )
After "toying" in 1/32 Monograms back ages ago, I did modelling and paint in 1/72 scale for ten years, to create my own 1/72 little museum, which I still have.
Oddly, all these models became flyables one by one in IL2 ! ( ... but not Blackburn Skua from Frog ! ...and airfix BV-141 yet )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV96hXwWN7c
http://www.fantastic-plastic.com/BLOHM% ... 20PAGE.htm
Cheers !
...some were nickname "blackcat's" as I recall. HA! U like cats ! I see... More like CANSO in canada. ( canadair/consolidated/convair ).
Hi TED ! How are U these days ! Had CFS-3 just slightly before IL2FB, and used the two side by side for a long while...
- one thing: I became very good at reallistic shooting in CFS-3, but never in IL-2 . Could lob my tracers wright where the ennemy plane would be...
My guess is the AI was somewhat predictable !
- I hated difficulty of landing a plane in CFS-3, ( to seek/then actually see a runway, long after the "game-over message !" ); plus NO AI plane RTB at all.
- there was an ARCADE feeling due to ennemy planes reappearing endlessly till the goal of the game was hit on the button; no in auto-pilot mode combat either !
- no records playbacks that I recall...
- adding new planes in CFS-3, like in FSX, takes huge ammount of memory per plane ! ( This, CFS-3, at a time where PC memories was much lower ! )
After "toying" in 1/32 Monograms back ages ago, I did modelling and paint in 1/72 scale for ten years, to create my own 1/72 little museum, which I still have.
Oddly, all these models became flyables one by one in IL2 ! ( ... but not Blackburn Skua from Frog ! ...and airfix BV-141 yet )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SV96hXwWN7c
http://www.fantastic-plastic.com/BLOHM% ... 20PAGE.htm
Cheers !